Nothing But Sex
To the Editors:
Re your cover story on Charlie's Angels [Nov. 22]: forget the intellectual analysis. The show is nothing but raw sex. I love it.
Jock K. Chung New Haven, Conn.
I think I'm in love! Three times over!
J. Brian Lihani Lexington, Ky.
I want TIME to be food for thought, not to furnish pictures for some bachelor apartment.
Mary L. Strom Dubuque, Iowa
Charlie's Angels: the show is yet another human sacrifice to the almighty god Nielsen and a giant step backward for womankind.
Gretchen Pinkerton Wexford, Pa.
I agree with your critical treatment of "TV's Super Women." But how dare you indict, rather snobbishly, the economic and artistic drives of the networks, as well as the shabby viewing habits of the general public, when TIME so obviously cashes in on the very attitudes it attacks?
Gerhart Waldorf Chapel Hill, N.C.
After months of apple pie, motherhood and the Jimmy and Jerry show, I needed this.
Rodney K. Reitz Lutherville, Md.
Are you trying to compete with Playboy and sell your magazine with sex and violence?
I would like you to know that there are people who believe in righteousness (including modesty), which brings peace from God, and who oppose sin, which brings damnation and judgment. We are offended by ubiquitous displays of this type, and urge you, in your own area of influence, to restrain yourselves.
David A. DeBell Annapolis, Md.
Without a doubt, the show's acting is bad, and the plots are even worse. But who cares!
Howard D. Derman West Lafayette, Ind.
An injustice was done a lovely, gentle lady when your "TV's Super Women" made it appear that Jaclyn Smith was cast in Charlie's Angels because of her relationship with a producer. Since I am the producer mentioned, I wish to correct the implication. I was producing The Rookies at the time Miss Smith was cast in the Angels pilot, and she garnered that role on her talent alone.
I did, however, produce the initial seven episodes of Charlie's Angels, and you are incorrect in stating that "no one really cares" about the quality of television. Most of us do. And we know we can do better; nonetheless, we do work in a commercial arena, and Charlie's Angels was successfully designed as pure escapism with no intellectual pretense.
Rick Husky Beverly Hills, Calif.
I applaud TIME's giving credit to its staff members for the cover story on Charlie's Angels: Editor Martha Duffy, Critic Richard Schickel, et al. It is a pity the same generosity was not extended to whoever created the series. Starting from the blank page, Ben Roberts and I wrote the script and then produced the "slick pilot," which then became a series.
Ivan Goff MGM Studios Culver City, Calif.
Rush for Blood
Re "A Sudden Rush for Blood" [Nov. 22]: Whom are we really trying to protect? Surely not Gary Mark Gilmore. I understand the right of appeal to be just that—a right, a privilege—not a demand to be forced on a compliant convicted person.
Ronald D. French Sea brook, Texas